In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Géricault's drawing of a man clutching the mane of a horse as they struggle together to stay afloat is a direct copy of a detail from one of Nicolas Poussin's (1594-1665) most celebrated paintings, The Deluge, or Winter (see photo). Small in scale but monumental in feeling, the sheet exemplifies the artist's "antique manner" of drawing, which he began to develop around 1815. This style, with its heavy contour lines and broad washes, developed in tandem with Géricault's renewed interest in copying works of art from the past, such as prints after ancient sculpture and works by Raphael (1483-1520), Michelangelo (1475-1564), and Poussin.
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Gustave Doré — Wolk waarin figuren zweven
Jules Dupré (French, 1811–1889) — Cattle (verso)
Eugène Cicéri — Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris
Rodolphe Bresdin — Hameau de Pêcheurs (Hamlet of Fishermen)
Anonymous — Cloud Study
Eugène Cicéri — Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris
Anonymous — Cloud Study
Anonymous — Cloud Study
Cloud Study
Eugène Cicéri — Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris
Rodolphe Bresdin — Le Lac au Soleil Levant (The Lake with Th
George Hendrik Breitner — The Edge of a City
